Monthly Archives: February 2008

DesigningTheNews.com + CSS Galleries = Traffic!

Ooooh well. Over the past couple of days there’s been a rather large surge of visitors to the site, thanks to the readers of some of the internets’ best web design and css galleries! Seen as though this site is part of a university project, and I’m hoping to get a good mark at the […]

Post Details Posted February 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm By Dave | Filed under Design, Site News | Tagged as , , , , , | 3 Comments

Newspapers, books, and rather large word counts

After collecting all the data for One Week Of The Guardian, I’ve been looking through the statistics. One thing that struck me was the amount of words in the news for all 6 days, Monday to Saturday. In one week, there were 182,001 words. That sounds alot to me, but I managed to read all […]

Post Details Posted February 29, 2008 at 12:06 pm By Dave | Filed under Research, Thoughts | Tagged as , , , , , | 0 Comments

One week of The Guardian: Statistics Collection

For an upcoming visual series on designing the news contained in the Guardian newspaper, I’ve been data mining through a weeks worth of the papers, Monday to Saturday (Sundays’ issue is the Observer so no Guardian then), and disecting all of the information. The information I took from the paper in order to create the […]

Post Details Posted February 28, 2008 at 4:15 am By Dave | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

One week of The Guardian plan

Last week The Media Centre in Huddersfield held a four day workshop to help develop our projects further for the final year. During the workshops were four presentations by various people from the design industry; Steve Teruggi of Winkreative and Monocle, David Squire of Desq, Christine Osborne of Swamp at Brahm, and Clive Tonge of Lynchpin.
After […]

Post Details Posted February 23, 2008 at 11:52 pm By Dave | Filed under Research | Tagged as , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Illustrated headlines, part three

Yet another headline from The Guardian newspaper. Incase you’re not picking up on this, there’s a pattern forming here. I read The Guardian. I’m saving reading The Sun, or the News Of The World for a later date, partly because I’m saving the over exaggerated fantasies for a more befitting scenario, and partly because I’m […]

Post Details Posted February 18, 2008 at 10:00 am By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Illustrated headlines, part two

UPDATE: Have re-tweaked the image to further degrade the appearance of the boat.
Another headline from The Guardian, this time it’s a front page story. With ships. Carrying booty. On the sea. And maybe pirates? I hope there’s pirates. Arrrr.
“True scale of C0â‚‚emissions from shipping revealed” - The Guardian

The owl and the pussycat went to sea, in a […]

Post Details Posted February 17, 2008 at 8:24 pm By Dave | Filed under DTN Lab, Design | Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment